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"A friend of mine used to say that talking to me as like an out-of-body
experience: everything's normal then something, some detail, makes you feel
like you've left reality behind."
-- Christian Lavoie
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t on wmaker 0.52 and up too (i think
that was the version I was using))
I've not noticed this behavior on closing any window BUT a navigator
window. The bug seems to be common to navigator and communicator 4.5+
(yes, I've seen this on 4.5 too). I used to think for some reason the
main pr
> > potato+last packages+kernel2.2.10
Mozilla M7 won't run on neither RH6.0 nor Debian 2.2 (I presume this
to be related to glibc :), though you *SHOULD* see a Segmentation
Fault message appearing.
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butors in some ways =),
whereas Xanim is developed by a handful (although I'm not rock-certain
on that one, I *think* it's that way).
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maker. (That change also
should be permanent, if nothing goes wrong)
> Thanks muchly :)
> PS Yes this is my first Debian install, so I'm a newbie!
Bah, we've all been in that newbie club once in our life. There's no
shame in that =)
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> Hi all,
> Ok, I'm a little confused on how updates to the Debian system are
> supposed to work. I hope someone can help me figure it out
Well, let's at least giveit a try =)
> So what determines an "r" release? The Debian pages say the current
> release is at 2.1r2. How do I know if I have
we're here to answer questions
anyway =)
> thanks
No problem,
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n't *need* to switch. I think you *should* switch, but
that's flame war bait =)
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rom past personnal experience, I'd say gnomeICU and licq are the two
most advanced ICQ clients for linux, and ICQ-Java the most 'stable'
and feature-full. (Mark that stable with a great grain of salt)
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che-ssl
still won't start, don't ask why, I don't have time to investigate
anyway =P ) but I still can praise linux for its stability over windows ;)
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ss stable using
glibc2.1 than it was the days I had slink/SO50, my guess being they
haven't yet finished coverting it.
In particular, the threaded view in my Inbox has crashed 3 times in
the last 5 minutes, and viewing e-mails unthreaded is ugly, IMHO.
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's?
> > 2) If it does work, what do i do to let people know how to do it? Just
> >letting it sit on my hard drive unused by anyone else doesn't sound
> >too appealing...
2) How about writing a 'SO5 and glic2.1 Mini- HOWTO'?
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ibs misplaced, or misconfigured, and your riding.
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at, how to get favors from them, how
to influence Red Hat.
Thirdly, let's say:
HP creates an idea to earn more cash.
If it can give more cash to Red Hat Software, it'll be in next's RHLinux.
If it's not worth the megabytes it's saved on, it won't make it in Debian,
and HP is losing money...
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> Christian Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > Those are very old screenshots of apt (originally named deity). I have
no
> > > idea if they still resemble the current apt.
> >
> > More or less.
>
> Isn't apt a command-line tool thou
ss accurate.
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> I'll see. I think that I've got the docs of pkzip. But can the debain
> zip-uncompressing program handle the chunks, provided I can make them with
> dos-pkzip?
Since pkware released a version of pkzip, you should be able to use that as
a backup resource, if unzip cannot.
some troubles (altough it handled them quite perfectly) was
when I forgot to fsck a badly unmounted partition. (PM continued it's
job, finished, and I fsck'ed the partition after. Everything got
repaired and life continues ;) Other than that, I never had any single
trouble with PM4.
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I recently switched to a 2.2.2 kernel. I also tried to install IP
masquerading on 2.2.2, and later tried to remove it. Since then,
StarOffice won't connect to my pop server, although Mutt will. Any
ideas why?
How come I can't use the PHP3 debugger???
Everytime I try I get: "Fatal Error: Call to unsupported or undefined
function debugger_on() in /url on line 10"
Here's a snippet from my php3.ini file and the actual code I'm
using... where's the semi-colon I forgot? ;)
[Debugger]
debugger.host =
How come I can't use the PHP3 debugger???
Everytime I try I get: "Fatal Error: Call to unsupported or undefined
function debugger_on() in /url on line 10"
Here's a snippet from my php3.ini file and the actual code I'm
using... where's the semi-colon I forgot? ;)
[Debugger]
debugger.host =
or for gtk.themes.org...
> I'm intending to package them once my maintainer status is cleared-
> but that'll be after slink arrives, at a guess...
> http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/debian/ for anyone interested (.deb and
> .dsc/.tar.gz).
I wonder... Could/Should this be a p
> > I've been pondering on Debian's future more and more, and I've
> > wondered if:
> >
> > 1) The package system could switch on something more source-based. I
> > mean, there have been a few discussions on optimizing packages.
> > (Debian-i686) On a compile it yourself, the package can hardly be
s the point of the question you asked??
Well, acutally, I'd say he was looking for a find command. =P
Could such a thing be implemented widget-set wide? I mean, could a
single program search through all gtk-based text editors currently
opened? Or does this need some modifications to GTK? How eays could it
be done?
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>From what I've heard so far, something in-between linux kernel
configuration (menuconfig, xconfig) and a Win95's Wizards like
interface is what is primarily wanted from new-to-linux guys?
Christian
ctually, I think it's more something like:
If you are editing something in an editor, and you search for 'foo'
then the program will point you to all 'foo's in your currently opened
editor sessions.
I don't know it exists, it would indeed be quite useful, but,
erful database
engine running behind apt/dselect/dpkg. And at least a few months to
conceive correctly, BEFORE starting to code. But has such a major
change some future?
2) Anyone ever thought of Debian (GNU?)/BSD? Is the BSD licence
compatible with the Debian policy/requirements?
Christia
DISCLAIMER: I never used any other distribution than Debian. All what I say
about others is gathered from the many things I've read about those dists.
> >Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install
> Red Hat in
> >less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully up at that sp
pkg are marvels. In the
same way, Debian's easier to upgrade.
So, in those comparative reviews, yes, we DO are disadvantaged. What they
look at is: How easy are the 5 first day of use. They forget about the 360
next that'll really show the Debian power.
Christian Lavoie
I've been having a few troubles myself... Was able to connect, but any
download (read: apt-get upgrade =P ) over 20k would end up timed out.
I'd say one of the internet backbones had one helluva backache.
Christian Lavoie
> Hi,
> I have followed the netscape installation instructions (generic linux)
> and all is unpacked and the install script completes OK. But netscape
> will not run. It is missing the libraries libg++.so.27 and
> libstdc++.so.27. These are present on my Debian system (2.0) in
> usr/lib/libc5-comp
> Running slink and upgraded apt 0.1.9 to apt 0.30.
> Using dselect-apt with /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to an ftp
download
> site will give an error message that the ftp driver is missing from
> /usr/lib/apt/methods. Any idea why it's missing and how to resolve it.
> Currently I am getting ar
Has anyone a working version of mod_auth_mysql?
./configure screws with the following:
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C...
running.
Something like making another one accessible on Alt-F8.
Christian Lavoie
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> > > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Christian Lavoie wrote:
> > >
> > > > I starting to think this whole mess started on a word understanding
> > > > problem. I wouldn't name such an organization a 'corporation', =P
> Written by someone in
t speak out of personal experience... =P )
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lthough
not highly rewarding, it does include some technical knowledge, and
proves some proficiency in compiling and ocnfiguration of Debian
systems.
Christian Lavoie
3C, or other
reserved to corporation bodies thingies.) and tries to augment
developer communication and tries to 'enforce' major headings of the
dist. (Like, say, we're switching to libc7)
Christian Lavoie
er.
But as the discussion evolves, I'm more and more thinking that going
for-profit dist will simply kill the essential spirit of Debian.
Christian Lavoie
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> > My point is that this company would one day tries ot improve it's
> > revenues and influence the Debian distribution to fits its needs. Look
> > at the recent discussions about whether to ship Slink as i386 only, or
> > to wait until m68k and others are ready. If Debian had been
> > commerciall
wsers?
Emacs-W3 also claims CSS1 support. W3's own Amaya also has some
support (but it shouldn't pass the tests, AFAIK)
Christian Lavoie
ltiple packages
databases? I think were arguing on a 'one fits all' vs a specialized
solution.
Anyway, once you've got a database server installed, I think it should
be a great thing to use, since anyway, next re-install is in a few
decades. ;P
Christian Lavoie
> Christian Lavoie wrote:
> >I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned
but
> >anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server
like
> >mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database?
> Because a database has
ically
superior code. (I had to flatter ourselves a bit, didn't I? ;)
I think your company suffers from what I like to call, the blues. They
are seeing that their world is crumbling, and they just don't like it.
So they're are going have to 'revenge' (even unconciously) on Debian,
which is the Flagship of the FSF.
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> All of the dpkg info is in /var/lib/dpkg. All of the files are plain
text files, use less to look at them. APT stores its cache in
/var/cache/apt. The files appear to be binary. There is a debian-dpkg
and a mailing list, try checking out the archives of that. Also, there
is a mailing list fo
Where can one find information on the kind/location of the Database
dpkg/dselect/apt uses to do their work?
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a generic gui frontend to an SQL db?
> > Usually you would want something specific to your
database/application.
It does to me. Ask yourself, does it makes much sense to have a
generic SQL language, usually, you would want something specific for
your database/application... ;)
To me, it's
> > I don't think Debian is usable to found a company on that. No company
> > can actually control Debian, impose release dates and such needed
> > things (for a company). Even if it's feasible, no company ever SHOULD
> > have such rights, for Debian to keep it's spirit.
> >
> You are thinking in t
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Is it me or is the mySQL support absent? How can I fix that?
Christian Lavoie
> Jay,
> If you like Windoze Explorer, try Linux Explorer (explorer).
> They look very much alike! :-)
BTW, the Linux Explorer has been renamed to X-Plorer (Other than linux
support) and hasn't been updated in quite a long time, especially for
a linux thingie. But it's a good way t
Okay, here's my newbie question of the week:
I've installed the php3 packages (php3, php3-mysql-apache, php3-doc;
names aren't accurate, they just represent what I needed) and actually
want to build a page using mySQL, and PHP3 scripting (what a weird
plan with such packages, I know.) To go righ
come back again tomorrow
on this subject), but I think we should invent ways for the FSF to
compete Microsoft's bank account. (Hey, one can always dream for it's
beliefs! =P )
Christian Lavoie
of Debian. (Well, now that I know what I'm speaking of in terms
of dists differences (more or less), there are =) ) I chose Debian for
2 major reasons:
- It's the first dists I heard of (www.quake2.com, sometime last year)
=P
- It's not influence by a particular company. Ultimately, it's not a
money-maker.
Christian Lavoie
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> > Yep. But, IMHO, it has something to do with the feeling that if you
> > work for Debian, you're working for the community, including yourself.
> > If you work for Red Hat, you're giving money to someon
27;re giving money to someone who doesn't
care about YOU, only it's bank account. Actually, that's the feeling I
get.
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> On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:49:11PM +0000, Christian Lavoie wrote:
> > I've got a single ext2fs partition, so it is the root partition.
> > That's the one I need to defrag/scan, so even having it mounted as
> > read only won't help. (At least for the defrag)
&g
> On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 01:32:02PM +0000, Christian Lavoie wrote:
> > What is the best way to defrag/scan disks?
> >
> > Mounted disks can't be defragged, and you can't umount the root
> > partition, can you?
> I don't know how to defrag a disk (yo
What is the best way to defrag/scan disks?
Mounted disks can't be defragged, and you can't umount the root
partition, can you?
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> Slink works, over here (I think I have mostly slink installed now,
SANE is the
> only packet I know is potato, and a loot of other package are still
hamm.
> Apt-tells me that it is holding back a bit over 100 packets.)
BTW:
Why in hell does sometimes APT holds packages back? Last time it
hap
> I've managed to teach people to install debian, it took an
> afternoon to do and these people didn't know anything about
> Linux before they started.
I thought myself to install Debian in a day. Never saw Linux before
that day, and I successfully installed it twice so far (a friend of
mine got
g slink to k2.2
asap.
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recognition and marketing power.
- Java is growing stronger and stronger, and more use of Java means less OS
dependancy. Bad for microsoft. Real bad.
- And last, Be and Macintoshes are growing stronger (or coming back, ;) )
and will probably take the newbie users. And these are the ones that really
put Microsoft at what it is with win95.
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itself, but I got a good
background of Win95 and DOS administration. So I installed Linux, and jumped
in the early frozen dists to face troubles. I wanted to. But I agree, I
can't think of a really good reason to update a whole system on an unstable
branch. You're guaranteed to crahs th
x27;t living in the same world I
am. EVERY single company in the world wants you to pay them. They are
going to use all tricks possible, and permitted by law. Even giving
you freely a powerful app as WordPerfect is.
BTW: I have nothing against Corel, I downloaded WordPerfect 8 and I am
pretty satisfied of what it is. It is what I expected all along,
something to make them earn even more money. You can't be unaware of that.
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> > What? Do you mean you got gui00.gz, gui[1-6]0.gz and not
GUI[0-6]0.GZ
> > files? You didn't, like all the others who mentioned this, get
Upper-Case
> > files?
> >
> That's exactly what I mean. I downloaded gui0-6.gz AND guilg00.gz and
got all
> lowercase file names - using IE 4.01 (yah,
s?
3) How many swap partitions Linux supports?
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s?
3) How many swap partitions Linux supports?
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err
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The Gimp can do screenshots. (http://www.gimp.org I don't think you
need the URL, but anyway)
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What is a linux dream computer?
I've finally put aside a couple of bucks, and I'm wondering:
What's the ultimate linux computer today? Which video card is the best
(which one does the most, 2d/3d/mpeg/tv; ideal is a 3dfx) ? What sound (3d?;
ideal is an aureal) card?
What laptop is the best deal?
What's is the best place (on-line) to get the Slink CDs when it's out?
I'm trying to get a xserver (either svga or agx) on a XGA-2 chipset. The
server specifies it's for the ISA bus, but I'm stuck with a PS/2 with a MCA
bus. After everything is configured (correctly, AFAICT) the 'startx' show me
the following output, anyone knows what's wrong (or for that matter, what
As you were probably expecting, here's what was piped! =)
Any ideas what is going wrong?
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STDERR
Description: Binary data
STDOUT
Description: Binary data
XF86Config
Description: Binary data
I need to write down the output (actually, I need the error message) that
the startx command gives me. (The nice 'startx >err' doesn't work...)
I installed the Xserver_agx (and all it needs) on a PS/2 system recently,
but haven't yet been able to get the X server to w
> Christian Lavoie wrote:
> >
> > Actually, I think more and more people are wanting Microsof-like
> > applications, because the Microsoft philosophy has some good ideas,
> > especially when you are a end-user.
> [...]
> > Let's take the Windows' I
> Hey All,
>
> Just venting.
>
> Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though
> that it was
> mighty funny that the software that most people want to see
> ported to Linux
> is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$
> and was glade
> to find Linux. If it was
code?
- How much of a performance hit can I expect on compilation jobs from a
kernel math emulator?
- Where in hell can I find a dos-working version of Emacs? The
most-recent/used and linux-version-like please. =P
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artitions and does
> it work correctly?
> Thanks Roman Malinowski
Worked flawlessly, on two different systems. This product is a must.
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> I just had this problem. Downgrade dpkg and apt to the versions
> in frozen.
> See recent discussion on debian-devel for more...
>
> -Mitch
I recently 'upgraded' my system from hamm to potato. Unfortunately, I was
targeting slink and much of the system is down right now. Where can I find
some i
I've just finished installing Debian Potato. (Upgrading from Hamm)
Although I'm at the latest versions of the gtk libs I could find I still get
an error message. (See attached file)
Which package contains that file? Or where can I find it? (Please refer to a
.deb file)
err
Description: Binary d
out of Xserver!
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abase. Is "Ticket to Ride" a company alias for some
> other
> chipset?
>
I think the Ticket To Ride is what you're looking for... Give a try to this
server, shoudn't hurt.
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iously) EXACLY means, and can one elaborate on it a
bit? (Where to set the library used by the dynamic linker, what causes the
problem and how to solve it and such)
4) Where can I find the HOWTOs archive?
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> I'm not sure what you mean by 'Linux part'. What will
> hopefully happen
> is someone building a .deb installer for it, like with Netscape.
Actually, it was more or less what I had in mind.
> "the Linux part"? It's a binary that links to standard source code;
> there is no linux code in it. It would be a civil & criminal copyright
> violation to distribute the binary without permission
What I mean by the Linux part is that there IS a version freely available. I
agree there's no rea
> StarOffice is probably non-free, thus no one besides the company who
> created it can legally redistribute it.
There a few side-solutions then:
- Debian community asks StarDiv the permission
- StarDiv does it on its own
- There's a script used to install StarOffice 3.0 The same could? be
> StarOffice runs as good on Debian 2.0 as it does prior versions.
> Please file this message and pass along. It seems that every week
> someone asks how to install StarOffice, and fails to look back
> through the archives of this mailing list.
>
Why doesn't someone make .deb files out of the pack
How can I configure the SVGA Xserver to use a 16bpp resolution by default?
How am I supposed to switch to such a resolutio anyway? I haven't yet been
able to use anything else than 256 colors res.
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Where can one find the Midnight Commander (GNOME version) 4.1.35 .deb files?
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quot;
> (since the screen itself is the "Server").
>
> What specifically do you have in mind when you say X Client?
What would be the most like the Windows' Shell. (Or LiteStep. See following
question)
> Can you elaborate?
Sure, see previous comment. =)
> > 5) Since I'm using Litestep (http://www.litestep.net) in Win95, I'll
> > probably be using AfterStep in Xwindows, Where can I find the
> wharfs/*.app
> > things?
Christian Lavoie
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testep.net) in Win95, I'll
probably be using AfterStep in Xwindows, Where can I find the wharfs/*.app
things?
Yours Truly,
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